“What people say and feel about you when you’ve left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.”

There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.

Life is the best and only timekeeper.

While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do.

There’s no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it – and get on with it.

People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests

You won’t ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.

The head thinks. The heart knows.

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our ‘self’, others and life itself.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won’t find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.

You make me feel the way Christmas did when I was a kid, I’d close my eyes look to the skies and magic became real.

Feeling lost is a sign that you’re finally listening to yourself and no longer conforming to what is expected of you.

My notebook couldn’t carry the burden of all those words which my heart once felt.

So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

God didn’t say, ‘Be still and feel that I am God,’ He said, ‘Be still and know’.

I feel like I’m way too young to wear such heavy makeup all the time. It’s just bad for your skin, but I’m always doing photo shoots or red carpets and events, so I obviously want to look good.